Major advances have been made in CM. Now there is a method that can be used on a wide range of machines, that's straightforward
& easy to use and can find problems in advance of other techniques - often before permanent damage has occurred. That’s
why we call our instruments Machine Health Checkers (MHC).
It's too expensive & only for big companies
Think about the costs of a single hour of lost production or the replacement
of a failed machine. Our customers typically recoup the cost of the equipment within a few months or even days ! That's why
we have 1000’s of portable instruments in use worldwide in both small and large companies. We’ve got affordable
products priced within your budget.
It takes too long & it's too complicated
True of other methods perhaps but with our unique Acoustic Emission (AE)
approach it's simplicity itself. For most machines, attach the sensor, wait 15 seconds and read a number - if Distress(R)
is greater than 10 there's a problem - what could be easier ? And its all done without having to know shaft speeds or
bearing details - there's nothing smarter on the market. (Distress(R) is a registered trademark of Holroyd Instruments Ltd)
It'll never work on my machines
Your process or machines may be special but they still use bearings - right?,
If it turns between 0.25 rpm up to 1000+ we've got the unit for you. We're so sure we'll bring it to your site (mainland UK)
and let you prove to yourself that you can monitor your machinery. Our instruments will even pick up subtle effects like intermittent
oil starvation inside a plain bearing before its worn out!
Our machines are too slow to monitor
Our latest developments let you monitor machinery down to 0.25 rpm. That's
4 minutes per revolution and well beyond the capabilities of conventional CM technology - and its still easy to use. (Memo
Pro / SloPoint only)
I've never heard of AE, isn't it the same as vibration
All engineers have heard of vibration and many have discovered its weaknesses
the hard way. Make no mistake this is a quite different technology which has spun out of UK Aerospace developments.
I've already got sensors on my machines
Sensors for machinery protection such as temperature and overall vibration
are aimed at catching catastrophic failures. They just aren't sensitive enough to let you get the full cost savings of CM.
We use external service providers for our condition monitoring
Maybe - but how much is this costing you and wouldn't you really like to
be in control - checking the severity of problems and the effectiveness of repairs.
Its too noisy for it to work
That's the beauty of AE it works at high frequency so you're immune
to airborne sounds and vibrations from adjacent machines. You can even monitor bearings on machines which are naturally shaking
(eg centrifuges and helicopters).
I need diagnostics
You’ve got it with AE-LAB (TM). This innovative software tool integrates
with the MAC-Memo Pro to give you diagnostic information from the heart of your machine.
